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762:). Says Ratcliffe on Wordsworth’s practice: "writing that transcribes actual things/actions/events in the world as they were, or seemed to be in that present moment of seeing/noting them. The writing in REAL tries to do something of this 'translation' of world into words, not as Dorothy Wordsworth did (whatever she did!) because I'm trying to give a 'shape' to things (the lines) on the page (among other things), but I'm interested to think of her work at this point, having written REAL." 31: 280:
was about the physical ("real") world in relation to what we ‘make of it’ in our perception & thinking/feeling, I see now that it’s also ABOUT time, time passing in fact --- one moment at a time, one day at a time, throughout a lifetime in fact, while we’re ‘here’ as such. So the physical takes
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in his interview, both Schrader and Ratcliffe acknowledge that working as a publisher and editor in the world of small press publication is but another facet of devotion to a practice that would “present and channel yourself and others this is the story behind Avenue
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Ratcliffe never strayed far from the themes of "music" and "being in number" discovered in his initial "Campion project". He has not abandoned the touchstone that is Mallarmé, whose work he appropriated mid-career, culminating with 1998's
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the following works are on-going projects designated by Ratcliffe as trilogy / triptych(s). The dates in indicate the time period during which the work was written. For example, indicates February 9, 1998 - May 28,
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The complete text of Ratcliffe’s book, composed from October 19, 2002 through July 14, 2005. Part of Ubuweb’s series ‘’Publishing the Unpublishable’’ – 026: ubu editions www.ubu.com
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The complete text of Ratcliffe’s book, composed from July 2, 2001 through October 18, 2002. Part of Ubuweb’s series ‘’Publishing the Unpublishable’’ – 025: ubu editions www.ubu.com
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As of 2010, Ratcliffe has published at least 19 books of poetry (21 including the e-editions on Ubuweb) and as the editor and publisher of Avenue B Press.
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project, becomes the insistent 'capture' of what, following on Merleau-Ponty, it could mean for us to be "meeting time on the way to subjectivity".
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I’ve been working "serially" for a long time now...That’s one of the things I’ve begun to realize, that whereas I thought the work in
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Ratcliffe recognizes that his own particular commitment to writing has, over the years, displayed itself as something which works "
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where he has been an instructor for more than 25 years, and continues to teach Creative Writing (poetry) and Literature (poetry,
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during this time period as a defining event in his artistic development and poetic practice up to this point.
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from the publisher of Ratcliffe's most recent book of criticism: ‘’Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet’’
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place in & by means of the temporal – hence "temporality" (maybe I will call the work I’m doing now
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this page has a link to a selection of poems from his 2002 collection ‘’Portraits & Repetitions’’
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and critic who has published a number of books of poetry and three books of criticism. He lives in
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The materiality of page, ink, paragraph, and spacing is often just as important as the logic of
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Such an intense avowal implicates Ratcliffe's project within a timeline moving forward from the
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and is the publisher of Avenue B Press. He was the director of the Creative Writing program at
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From this perspective, Ratcliffe's work not only addresses (tacitly) the concept of the "
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Ratcliff draws much of his inspiration from where he lives in Bolinas, California.
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By the early 1980s, Ratcliffe had begun to read and ‘learn’ about, and from, the
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which is about when I started to read the essay called “Temporality” (by
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commenting on REAL, Ratcliffe compares and contrasts this work with
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to finish his bachelor's degree and complete his PhD. He was also a
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Ratcliffe's writing from the past decade, beginning with 2000's
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features Cage's engraving "Changes and Disappearances, #35"
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http://www.ubu.com/ubu/unpub/Unpub_025_Ratcliffe_Cloud.pdf
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an ongoing project appearing daily here as a blog text:
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Triptych/Trilogy ~ each book is 474 pages/days :
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The focus of Ratcliffe's early academic career was on
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spaces in the light said to be where one/ comes from
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spaces in the light said to be where one/ comes from
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for one and a half years before transferring to the
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Ratcliffe Homepage @ EPC – Electronic Poetry Center
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Boston, MA
Poet
Publisher
stephenratcliffe.blogspot.com
Boston
Massachusetts
U.S. poet
Bolinas, CA
Mills College
Oakland, CA
Shakespeare
San Francisco Bay
Bolinas, CA
Reed College
University of California at Berkeley
Stegner Fellow
Stanford
Renaissance poetry
Thomas Campion
Language poets
Bill Berkson
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
serially
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
postmodern
poiesis
Stéphane Mallarmé
Henry James
Leslie Scalapino

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